ANSONIA+BOARD+OF+EDUCATION+v.+PHILBROOK

Sandra Crum Alex Mathis

Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook

Summary
====Philbrook is a teacher who is a member of a church whose tenets require members to refrain from secular employment during designated holy days, a practice that has caused respondent to miss approximately six days of school. Under the collective-bargaining between the board and the teachers union it says that the respondent gets three days annual leave for observance of religious holidays, but could not use for religious observance any accumulated sick leave, three days of which were otherwise available for "necessary personal business." The plantiff propose that to adopt the policy of allowing use of the three days of personal business leave for religious observance or, in the alternative, to allow him to pay the cost of a substitute and reveive full pay for additional days off for religiuos observance. The board denied both proposals ====

Holding
====This case presents no issue that requires, for purposes of Title VII religious accommodation claims, the establishing of a proof scheme delineating a plaintiff's prima facie case and the shifting production burden. The court found that the board did not have to meet each teachers accommodations. ====

Impact of Teaching As teachers it is important to realize that our personal preferences may not be met. There are rules and acoomadations all ready in place and we should go by them. It is very important to realize that everyones prefrences can not be met. It would be completely difficult to do this.

Questions Philbrook was granted her days off that she requested. T/F